Herbicides Sprayed On High School Field

Published: August 5, 2014 @ 2:54 PM EST

A hand-written unsigned notice on the fence for the Roselle Park High School/Herm Shaw Field this past Saturday afternoon read that the fields would be closed for 48 hours. In addition to that, information sheets on two chemicals – Allectus and 4-SPEED Selective Herbicide – were also posted on the fence. A white flag on West Colfax Avenue at the east end of the athletic field was also present with the name of a company called Royal Turf out of Stirling, NJ.

According to Sue Guercio, the Business Administrator for the Roselle Park Board Of Education (BOE), the spraying of the field was done on Saturday afternoon and was done on an ‘as needed’ basis and not in preparation of Nation Night Out activities tonight which will include fireworks at 9:15 p.m.

This article is meant to simply provide information with full up-to-date Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS).

A future article will provide more information on the procedures that are listed in the New Jersey School Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program and if such measures were or needed to be adhered to with regard to notification and application.

The herbicides – which are classified as pesticides – have their MSDS listed below.

Repeated calls for comments from Royal Turf were not returned in time for this article.